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I know this forum sees many old-time gamers. I have a question for them which is very interesting for me and the Russian RPG community as whole. What were early gaming clubs like? I can't find much info about it, only a few posts which don't go into details. Both personal accounts and weblinks...

(Long time no see, eh...) I wonder, what is the status of tabletop RPG industry? Does it grow or shrink? Are best-selling games getting simpler or crunchier? Do unusual games sell better or worse than in previous years? In this thread, I'm interested in statistics and trends of commercial RPG...

There was a talk in The Game for Non-Gamers thread about social encounters. One of examples given was like this: Recently I stumbled upon better instance of social mechanics - in Example of Play for Beast Hunters RPG (which is also available free is SRD form, in which they polished some of...

I noticed some discussions of abstract HP nature lately. This made me thinking... There are other ways to represent character's resilience in RPGs: health levels, separate pools, endurance roll... There is one HP system I like very much: Eldritch RPG's. Characters have Active Defense Pools...

To cut it short, I want to play D&D4 and enjoy it like others do. I think I got the style, but there's one thing that repulses me each time I look at it: class powers. The concept is ok, but the powers themselves strike me boring. My eyelids grow heavy, I start yawning and stuff %) I know the...

As a recent thread reminded me, before it was released I imagined D&D4 as a system with distinct interaction (a role) for every DM entity (NPCs, monsters and stuff). So, I decided to visualize the idea (but rules-light, unlike D&D): My question: is there a system like that?

Hi. Life's been good, and so I finished the white dragon illustration much later than I planned. This is a fourth attempt of creating a visual monster layout (see previous works in dedicated gallery). I intentionally took a hard task of fitting a true dragon on one sheet, but managed to fit...

This is my third attempt to make visual, easy-to-grasp description of monster, now with core 3.5 monster - the bulette. Well, actually, I have no strength to comment this after all this work... So, the picture: Wait, that's not all! See bonus comic strips about bulette's feats and leaps. I...